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Har Gobind Khorana, a Nobel laureate most Indians grow up claiming as their own, died on Wednesday in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 89. He dies of natural causes, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was professor emeritus biology and chemistry. He joined MIT in 1970. Two years before, Khorana won the Nobel, in 1968, sharing it with two others, for unraveling the nucleotide sequence of RNA and deciphering the genetic code. He was then with the University of Wisconsin.